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Voiceover. Writer of words and music. Slattern. Professional Starship. Views: my own.

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@emmabclarke
Emma Clarke
5 years
Was that #powercut someone attempting to fix Britain by turning it off and on again?
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4 years
Fantastic news. And proof this virus CAN be beaten...with strong leadership.
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4 years
BREAKING GOOD NEWS ALERT: New Zealand has announced it no longer has any patients in hospital being treated for coronavirus. It comes on the fifth straight day where no new cases have been reported. This is what winning looks like. 🇳🇿
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8 years
Don’t blame 2016, folks! It’s just a year, innit? Blame Cancer instead. Then donate. That’s proactive.
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6 years
@carolecadwalla If we can’t rely on the police to investigate political wrongdoing we are, as a society, fucked.
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@emmabclarke
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5 years
Why does the media keep giving a platform to people who spout destructive nonsense? I’m so sick of it. I’ve tried to be reasonable, to be even-handed. Enough. The media is failing our country by amplifying this bullshit.
@Femi_Sorry
Femi
5 years
Julia Hartley-Brewer: "I'd be happy with no deal". You may be happy turning us into the only major economy IN THE WORLD with no trade deal with its neighbours? You're not the one who'll lose your job. You're not the one who'll struggle to feed your family. #BBCqt
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@emmabclarke
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5 years
@davidallengreen This is what bothers me most about what Brexit has done to this country. The disingenuousness. The flagrant lack of respect for facts. The casual rudeness. The shameless abuse. It’s so bloody depressing.
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5 years
@JuliaHB1 Your tweets are consistently patronising, sarcastic, passive-aggressive, overtly aggressive and sometimes just plain cruel. Does this please you? Is this how you want the world to see you? Come back to humanity, Julia. You must be knackered.
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@emmabclarke
Emma Clarke
5 years
I am so sick of idiots.
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@emmabclarke
Emma Clarke
7 years
This. Is. Incredible.
@kurioso
Pepo Jiménez
7 years
Algunas estaciones del metro de Londres son cortas... tan cortas que tardas menos corriendo (pero tienes que estar en forma)...
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3 years
@mbklee_ Are you getting this @SkyNews ? Because yesterday you were reporting that a hospital in the NW was ‘very quiet.’ My FB timeline filled up with covid deniers within minutes of that broadcast. Grossly irresponsible.
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Emma Clarke
6 years
@Anna_Soubry @BBCRadio4 @peoplesvote_uk Please make it stop. This crazed government now recommending UK businesses should consider restructuring or relocating if they rely on EU sales. I can’t restructure 25 yrs of goodwill, nor can I uproot my family. For what? A cabal of crackpot Tories? Really??
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@emmabclarke
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3 years
@maggieNYT After the Insurrection, a rally is a grotesque suggestion.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
@Anna_Soubry @Conservatives Alarming that the people who deselected Grieve will be choosing Prime Ministerial candidates. The Tory party is in a very dark place. Moderates should get out ASAP. Does the party represent their values? Their aspirations for our country? I doubt it.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
Wake up. Reach for phone. Check if government has ruined the country. Feel deep gratitude to pundits who kindly tweet ‘nothing’s happened’ so you don’t have to keep scrolling. Realise you feel more knackered than you did when you went to bed. Repeat.
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4 years
@bbclaurak Elect a clown, get a circus.
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5 years
@KateEMcCann Didn’t the Hulk ruin the life of his alter-ego David Banner leaving him a solitary figure without stability, friends or meaningful relationships leaving David no option but to walk away from the destruction the Hulk had created at the end of every episode?
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@emmabclarke
Emma Clarke
3 years
@jessieopie @ddale8 ...in a broadcast that is beamed across the world. Hi from the UK! 🇬🇧
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5 years
@Femi_Sorry And who had even heard of the backstop in 2016?? Norway +? Canada +++? Brexit wasn’t defined on the ballot paper. It’s still not defined. Nobody knows what Brexit means even now. It’s a political Rorschach test.
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4 years
@JuliaHB1 “Not a single life will be saved.” Julia, this is demonstrably wrong. You must know this.
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4 years
@wesstreeting I didn’t think I could be more angry with this government but my God, since this travesty I’ve discovered fresh boiling lakes of fury.
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5 years
Sick of being called a remoaner, a referendum denier, and now, vermin. Sick of idiots who claim Wilberforce was a Tory. Sick of ministers who say people haven’t changed their mind (although they themselves have). Sick of lies.
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Emma Clarke
6 years
@Femi_Sorry Honestly, I could cry. Brexit is brutal. Worse than the Poll Tax, worse than the pit closures, worse than anything I’ve ever known. How can we do this to ourselves? Knowingly? I don’t understand why politicians would put us through this. Unless they’re mad. And greedy.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
@Peston @theresa_may @IanBlackfordMP I was disgusted. It was patronising and belittles the grave anxiety people are feeling about Brexit. A glimpse into her soul for a minute, that.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
@Anna_Soubry @BarryGardiner @BBCr4today @UKLabour @peoplesvote_uk But - but @EmilyThornberry that’s not what you said...? And you wonder why people are confused by your Brexit policy? You wonder why people don’t trust Labour? You wonder why millions won’t vote for you??
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5 years
@faisalislam He’s not really into Parliamentary sovereignty when it comes down to it, is he?
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Emma Clarke
6 years
@NickCohen4 I didn’t want to believe this at first. But I’ve not watched or listened to BBC news for months. I don’t trust it. And I can’t believe I’m saying that.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
@Peston So a minority government would self-select their new leader to carry out major legislation that didn’t have a mandate from the people? Blimey.
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Emma Clarke
7 years
@sarahkendzior My God Sarah - why can’t they SEE what they’re doing? Powerful people need to act quickly.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
@Femi_Sorry No Deal should never have been a credible option. The PM’s ridiculous ‘No deal is better than a bad deal’ is highly misleading. No Deal would be the height of irresponsibility with consequences we can’t even fully know.
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Emma Clarke
7 years
@GoldenGateNPS Very moved by your courage, and the messages of support you've received
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5 years
@jessicaelgot A sign of a huge political failure that No Deal is so misunderstood as to be seemingly desirable to people. The media needs to communicate what No Deal would mean for our country. Urgently.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
As their arguments become more fantastical, mired in lies, contradictions and disingenuousness, they reveal who they are. They’re idiots. I’m sick of them. And I can’t wait to tell them so, one day, at the ballot box.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
@tompeck @Conservatives I *so* want @KFC_UKI to sue for breach of their IPR.
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Emma Clarke
4 years
@bbclaurak It’s not right though, is it? What they’re doing is bloody terrible for our country.
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Emma Clarke
6 years
@mrjamesob If they knew what they were voting for why does nobody know what Brexit actually means - even now? The referendum was a Rorschach test. Brexit means something different to everybody.
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Emma Clarke
4 years
@IanDunt Whitty and Vallance must speak out. This is batshit.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
Substitute ‘impeachment’ with ‘second referendum’ and the symmetry is startling #BrexitShambles
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Sarah Kendzior
5 years
"They say discussing impeachment is too divisive. Where have you been since the mid-1990s? This country is already an open wound. This is not a red or blue thing -- America is purple, purple like a bruise. We are hurting in unison." -- @gaslitnation
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5 years
@Femi_Sorry @MaryRobinson01 Please vote to block a No Deal outcome. Vote to extend Article 50 and call for a confirmatory referendum. It’s the most democratic solution to this almighty mess. Please tell your constituents how you will vote ASAP.
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Emma Clarke
4 years
@jessphillips @MarinaHyde I am so tremendously sick of this government’s bullshit.
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Emma Clarke
3 years
@mrjamesob I have tried, God knows I’ve tried, to understand Brexit. I have implored its supporters to explain the benefits but I am profoundly, robustly unconvinced. I read widely, I am open minded. But Brexit, on any analysis, is a monumental act of needless self harm.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
@bbclaurak It’s not *Bercow* letting the government bring the vote again. It’s *Erskine May*
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Emma Clarke
7 years
#MSC2017 is where the serious stuff is being discussed. Waaaay away from the Tr*mp circus.
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Emma Clarke
6 years
@IanDunt How DARE these fuckers wank on about ‘democracy’ when they’re doing all they can to smother debate?
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6 years
@DavidLammy If MPs don’t know what Leave means, how can it be argued that the people did when they voted in the referendum nearly 18 months ago??
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Emma Clarke
5 years
@tompeck @BorisJohnson There is no low too low for this man. He has to go.
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Emma Clarke
3 years
@Acosta @CNN You deserve a medal for your reporting during the Trump administration. Thank you for your hard work and courage.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
@bbclaurak Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that for some MPs it’s about doing what’s best for the country.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
Sick of an Opposition that won’t oppose.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
Sick of a government with no majority and a Prime Minister who was elected by 0.02% of the population forcing a radical policy on our country, a policy that will ruin our economy, limit opportunity for young people and will make us poorer. For generations.
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Emma Clarke
3 years
@IanDunt As a Year 11 parent, the flip-flopping and uncertainty is having a seriously detrimental effect on kids. My son’s school has been heroic but the govt is failing to communicate with schools. Just make an effing decision.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
Paid a chunk of tax yesterday. Never has it felt more like chucking my hard-earned money down the shitter. Soul destroying.That money should be funding schools, nurses, infrastructure, police, environment etc. Not this abysmal pointless poverty-inducing mess. @BorisJohnson
@hmtreasury
HM Treasury
5 years
We’ve announced £2.1bn to prepare for No Deal. Funding will accelerate preparations at the border, support business readiness and ensure the supply of critical medicines. Read more:
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Emma Clarke
6 years
@davidallengreen This Brexiteer ‘tough guy swagger’ approach just looks really really really stupid. Embarrassing.
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Emma Clarke
7 years
@BarristerSecret He’s got this deliberately wrong to pitch a spurious, emotive argument to gullible Brexiters. Either that or he’s a pillock
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Emma Clarke
4 years
@davidallengreen "Enshrined" is the kind of word you see on a pretentious menu advertising a sausage roll.
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5 years
@IanDunt The guys in my office are now well into it. One’s just said “It’s like posh Hollyoaks, innit?"
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Emma Clarke
4 years
@hugorifkind @Markgatiss If @LBC is committed to the #BlackLivesMatter movement they should bin Farage and replace him with a BAME presenter.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
Sick of the decline of our country. The slow slide into mediocrity. We are an amazing nation - funny, inventive, resourceful, brave. Yet we’re reduced to this - acting like squabbling children, because of idiots.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
@faisalislam No amount of PR can convince me that a sack of shite isn’t a sack of shite. Sorry my analysis isn’t more sophisticated. I’m trying to keep my business going while these clowns ruin the country, so I’m a bit, you know, weary.
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5 years
Sick of seeing abusive tweets. Sick of racists. Sick of white supremacists. Sick of a supine media enabling disingenuous falsehoods. Sick of cynicism. Sick of anger.
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Emma Clarke
7 years
@BraddJaffy This is the spirit of the UK. Not reeling, not cowering.
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Emma Clarke
6 years
@Femi_Sorry They’re treating the electorate with contempt, while claiming to respect the will of the people without having the courage to allow the people to pass opinion on what Brexit actually, finally means.
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Emma Clarke
3 years
@PippaCrerar How are these people able to spout such lies without censure? So sick of merely ‘raised eyebrows.’ These politicians are putting people in danger. Lives are literally at risk.
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7 years
@DerekNotAway Courage takes many forms. But your bio advises me not to listen to criticism or negativity so I wonder why you offer it. :)
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4 years
@wesstreeting It’s so bad it’s frightening. This is the man who is leading our country. Frankly terrifying.
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3 years
@BethRigby Cummings' testimony suggests the government is an existential threat to UK citizens.
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5 years
Sick of politicians making assumptions about what the people want. Sick of not being asked. Sick of being expected to pay for this shitshow.
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5 years
I’m sick of idiots who say they want a sovereign Parliament yet say they’ll prorogue Parliament if Parliament doesn’t give them what they want.
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4 years
@mrjamesob I am so, so sick of this government’s bullshit.
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5 years
@IanDunt I am so sick of this shitshow. What government presses to make its people poorer with fewer opportunities. Honestly, I’m done.
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Emma Clarke
8 years
At least our value on the laughing stock market's gone up.
@campbellclaret
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
8 years
All around the world post referendum Britain is being laughed at. This is what Cameron, Johnson, Gove, Corbyn have delivered. Real damage
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5 years
@Peston @theresa_may @Geoffrey_Cox Even *I* knew this and I put on funny voices for a living.
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3 years
@sovietvisuals @BloomsburyBooks WOAH! Seize my means of production, baby...
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@PaulBrandITV @MichaelPDeacon For the love of sweating Jesus.
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5 years
@thomasbrake Has anyone ever asked why he consistently blocks legislation that seeks to protect women and girls from harm and exploitation? What’s wrong with him?? Disgusting.
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Emma Clarke
5 years
I’m sick of all of it. I’m sick of the hand-wringing, even though I’m hand-wringing right now. But even though I’m sick of it, I’m not defeated. I won’t give up, shut up or put up.
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Emma Clarke
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If you don't follow @RandyRainbow you should. Brilliant, incisive and my God, the voice of an angel.
@RandyRainbow
Randy Rainbow
7 years
Maybe next time he'll think... #BeforeHeTweets 🎶🤠
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Sick of trying to be reasonable. Sick of doublethink. Sick of arguments that crumble at even the vaguest scrutiny.
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5 years
I’m sick of being told you can damage democracy by letting people vote.
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